Why Not "The Roots of The Tea Party's Rage" ?

D'souza, Dinesh, The Roots of Obama's Rage
WASHINGTON DC: Regnery Publishing INC. 2010.


Among the innumerable books being published about President Obama is an offering by author and public speaker Dinesh D'souza, best known for his book The End of Racism and his multiple appearances on Bill Maher's old television show Politically Incorrect. D'Souza is a noted conservative who's affiliations include The American Enterprise Institute, The Heritage Foundation, and The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. D'souza also worked as an advisor in The Reagan White House.

In the book, D'sousa admits the slurs aimed at then candidate and current President Obama, such as Obama not being a natural born citizen of The United States, that Obama is a "crypto" Muslim, and that Obama is a radical "socialist" , are as absurd as they are unfounded. Then, amazingly, the author presents his thesis, which is; Obama is an Afrocentric "anti - colonial" radical carrying out his father's mission to humble "white" Euro -imperialists.

What follows is the usual misinformation and worn out Republican platitudes one has come to expect from increasingly hysterical conservative "think tanks". In what has become the "Tea" Party strategy of appealing to America's Lowest Common Denominator, D'souza shares his opinion "The U.S. is being ruled according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s", and an "inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realization of his anticolonial ambitions, is now setting the nation's agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son", President Obama. Of course, the book will be almost comical at times to anyone not predisposed and hungry to believe the smear of conservative propaganda, and the litany of conservative complaints against Obama, which predictably boils down to Obama's agenda to ruin the country via increasing taxes on affluent Americans and megacorporations, initiating Health Care reforms, scaling back the military budget, and curbing wreckless polluters with new cap and trade laws. Besides comic relief, the book may serve as a reminder to Americans who voted for Obama, and have been disappointed with his compromise with Republicans, what the president has managed to achieve during his first term in office.

In The End, the author closes with a quote from Ronald Reagan, but the true irony may be found in the book's title itself, a book about a president who conveys a calm dignity, meant for an audience of enraged corporate "Tea" Party Republican dupes.

Romney in 2012 ?

President Obama seems somewhat secure come re -election time due to the list of Republican front runners he may face. This of course doesn't explain why Obama has failed to deliver the "change" his campaign promised, or why he has surrendered on almost every issue to Republican demands. Perhaps when he considers rivals such as Sarah Palin, or the other paid FOX News pundits who will be seeking the Republican nomination, Obama feels there aren't enough selfish crazy Americans to vote for these people in a national election.

But there is one Republican front - runner who has, up until the recent Conservative Political Action Conference, kept away from the FOX News "Tea" party extremism. Although Mitt Romney made some absurd statements, such as blaming Obama for the "Hoovervilles" in America and saying Obama's State of the Union address sounded like his own CPAC speech from the previous year (perhaps that isn't so absurd)Romney would be the most formidable opponent Obama could face in his effort to be re -elected in 2012.

When one considers Romney signed a health care law in Massachusetts as governor, which is similar to the health care law signed by President Obama , and the fact Obama has seemingly abandoned his "base" and the people who voted for him in the first place in the futile effort to arrive at "bipartisan" solutions, many Democrats who bother to vote in 2012 could indeed vote for Mitt Romney.

Romney won the election for Governor of Massachusetts , not exactly a "conservative" state, in 2002, but did not seek reelection in 2006. During his term, he presided over a series of spending cuts and increases in fees while the state's finances improved. As long as the economy remains a disaster, Romney remains a viable candidate with a record of success. Romney signed into law the landmark Massachusetts health care reform legislation which provided near-universal health insurance access via subsidies and state-level mandates, so it seems unlikely repealing "Obamacare" would be at the top of his agenda.

Of course Romney would have to gain the Republican nomination, and will be accused of not being "conservative" enough, but campaign finances won't be a problem for him, as indeed it is becoming ever more obvious since the "Citizens United" case American elected offices will be going to the highest bidder, and he will certainly seem more sane to moderates repulsed by Sarah Palin and her FOX News cohorts.

Obama better get started on some of this "change" he was supposed to bring about, because so far there has been very little if any. The only change since Obama was elected has been a Democratic president pushing Republican policies. If Romney gets the Republican nomination in 2012, he may very well win The Election.